Tao Te Ching 47

Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao.

The more you know, the less you understand.
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What we seek outside ourselves can only be found inside ourselves. The world that we perceive outside our doors and windows is constructed inside our hearts and minds.

It takes a significant degree of learning in order to acknowledge how little we understand. The wisdom and maturity embedded in learned uncertainty brings peace. Accepting a lack of ultimate understanding is the door through which we find love, compassion, empathy and kindness. It takes a strong mind and a courageous heart to open and walk through that door.

There is tremendous power in the ability to say, “I don’t know.”